joel's pub

"I know the Pope is infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't be wrong."
~Stephen Colbert

21 July 2005

here's another eye-opener: practically every known suicide bomber ("suiciders" as bush calls 'em) of the past 20 years has blown him or herself up for one main reason: out of anger at a foreign power's military occupation of his or her homeland. unfortunately, it's become taboo to talk about things like this in american discourse, but you can read here about what researchers have discovered about terrorists.